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Pennzoil 150 at The Brickyard

Saturday, July 30th, 2022

Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course, Speedway, IN

  • 31 Chevrolet
  • 6 Ford
  • 5 Toyota

  • Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course
  • 19th Annual Pennzoil 150 at the Brickyard
  • Pole Winner: AJ Allmendinger
  • Age: 40
  • Team: No. 16 - Nutrien Ag Solutions Chevrolet
  • Owner: Kaulig Racing
  • Crew Chief: Bruce Schlicker
  • AJ Allmendinger won the Pole Award for the 19th Annual Pennzoil 150 at the Brickyard with a lap of 89.748 seconds, 97.834 mph.
  • This is his sixth pole in 80 NASCAR Xfinity Series races.
  • This is his third pole and 14th top-10 start in 2022.
  • This is his second pole in three races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course.
  • Ty Gibbs (second) posted his 15th top-10 start of 2022 and his second in two races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course.
  • Riley Herbst (third) posted his second top-10 start at Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course. It is his ninth in 20 races this season.
  • Austin Hill (ninth) was the fastest qualifying rookie.

  • Saturday, July 30th, 2022
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Reid Spencer
AJ Allmendinger scores dominant win in Pennzoil 150 at the Brickyard

The NASCAR Xfinity Series Playoff is still six races away, but AJ Allmendinger has already clinched one title.

With his victory in Saturday’s Pennzoil 150 at the Brickyard, the driver of the No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet is the undisputed King of the Road.

Allmendinger was an irresistible force at the 2.439-mile, 14-turn Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course. He led 42 of the 62 laps and overcame a fraught 25-second pit stop that dropped him from the lead to 13th for a restart on Lap 19.

The victory was Allmendinger’s third of the season—all on road courses—and his fourth win in the last five Xfinity Series races on circuits that turn right as well as left, dating to his triumph in last year’s fall event at the Charlotte Roval.

Allmendinger passed runner-up Alex Bowman for the lead after a restart on Lap 45, staying alongside Bowman’s No. 17 Chevrolet though Turn 1 and pulling clear through Turn 2. Allmendinger crossed the finish line 2.084 seconds ahead of the Hendrick Motorsports driver.

“God, I love this place,” exclaimed Allmendinger, who won last year’s NASCAR Cup Series race at the vaunted Brickyard and will defend that victory in Sunday’s Verizon 200 (2:30 p.m. ET on NBC, IMS Radio and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

“I knew Bowman was really good at the long runs, and so I tried to gap him as much as I could. God, I love Indy!”

Allmendinger lost track position on the Lap 16 pit stop when his crew had difficulty changing the right rear tire. But the 40-year-old driver from Los Gatos, Calif., fought through traffic and advanced to third for a restart on Lap 29.

He went three-wide to the inside on that restart and had the lead as he exited Turn 1.

“We gave up stage points a little bit there as well, to the guys we’re fighting for points,” Allmendinger said. “But you know what? Points don’t mean a damn thing—we’re kissing the bricks. Hell, yeah!” 

Bowman began to cut into Allmendinger’s lead late in the final 18-lap run green-flag run but ran out of time.

“I probably was a little too nice on that last restart,” said Bowman, who was running his first Xfinity Series race since 2018. “I knew he was going to be better than us firing off… At the end, we were definitely running him down—just not enough laps.”

Justin Allgaier passed Ross Chastain on the final lap to secure third place, with Chastain holding fourth. Chase Briscoe came home fifth, followed by Riley Herbst, Sam Mayer, Ty Gibbs, Austin Hill and Noah Gragson.

Gragson won the first stage of the race and fellow JR Motorsports driver Josh Berry claimed victory in Stage 2.

  • Drivers Entered: 42 (4 drivers will not make the race)
  • Laps Scheduled: 62
  • Margin of Victory: 02.084 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 1 Hours 56 Minutes 35 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 77.825
  • Cautions: 4 for 11 laps
  • Lead Changes: 8
  • Green Flag Passes: 1,637 (32.1 passes per green flag lap)

  • Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course
  • 19th Annual Pennzoil 150 at the Brickyard
  • Race Winner: AJ Allmendinger
  • Age: 40
  • Team: No. 16 - Nutrien Ag Solutions Chevrolet
  • Owner: Kaulig Racing
  • Crew Chief: Bruce Schlicker
  • AJ Allmendinger won the 19th Annual Pennzoil 150 at the Brickyard, his 13th victory in 80 Xfinity Series races.
  • This is his third victory and 17th top-10 finish in 2022. All three of his victories this year have come on road courses. Allmendinger has won four of the last five road course races.
  • This is his first victory and third top-fvie finish in three races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course.
  • Alex Bowman (second) posted his first top-10 finish in one race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course. It is his first top-10 finish in 2022.
  • Justin Allgaier (third) posted his 14th top-10 finish this season.
  • Austin Hill (ninth) was the highest finishing rookie.
Alex Bowman and Justin Allgaier lead the field
Indianapolis, Indiana - July 30, 2022 : Alex Bowman, driver of the #17 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet, and Justin Allgaier, driver of the #7 BRANDT/Precision Build Chevrolet, lead the field during the NASCAR Xfinity Series Pennzoil 150 at the Brickyard at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
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Pennzoil 150 at The Brickyard at Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course : Loop Data Box Score results
DRIVER ST MID CLO FIN HI LOW ARP PL DIF GFP GFxP PD QPS % QPS FST % T15 LED % LED LAPS DR TOT PTS
AJ Allmendinger 1 1 1 1 1 24 3.5 0 23 24 -1 15 65.22 18 98.4 42 67.7 62 149.70 42
Alex Bowman 4 2 2 2 1 13 3.0 2 12 22 -10 8 66.67 15 100.0 4 6.5 62 125.10 0
Justin Allgaier 10 3 4 3 1 16 4.7 7 21 29 -8 12 57.14 1 100.0 4 6.5 62 116.10 41
Ross Chastain 18 4 3 4 3 20 8.9 14 43 38 5 21 48.84 0 90.3 0 0.0 62 107.20 0
Chase Briscoe 6 19 5 5 3 33 16.1 1 71 47 24 10 14.08 3 40.3 0 0.0 62 97.20 0
Riley Herbst 3 20 6 6 3 33 10.6 -3 39 60 -21 10 25.64 0 72.6 0 0.0 62 101.00 37
Sam Mayer 5 8 9 7 5 22 9.3 -2 47 64 -17 22 46.81 1 90.3 0 0.0 62 103.70 31
Ty Gibbs 2 22 11 8 1 34 12.6 -6 56 60 -4 13 23.21 4 61.3 1 1.6 62 99.90 34
Austin Hill 9 11 7 9 6 30 11.1 0 39 59 -20 19 48.72 0 90.3 0 0.0 62 92.00 28
Noah Gragson 7 34 10 10 1 35 14.3 -3 55 26 29 10 18.18 0 64.5 6 9.7 62 87.40 37
Landon Cassill 11 18 12 11 7 33 15.3 0 45 43 2 10 22.22 0 69.4 0 0.0 62 84.70 26
Alex Labbe 14 13 13 12 2 35 17.3 2 54 50 4 24 44.44 2 53.2 0 0.0 62 81.80 34
Sage Karam 12 26 14 13 4 33 15.7 -1 54 16 38 16 29.63 0 53.2 0 0.0 62 83.50 31
Josh Berry 8 5 8 14 1 17 7.1 -6 19 12 7 17 89.47 1 98.4 5 8.1 62 99.70 37
Brandon Jones 36 15 16 15 9 36 18.4 21 42 58 -16 17 40.48 0 45.2 0 0.0 62 71.80 22
Brett Moffitt 17 21 17 16 12 37 23.0 1 44 75 -31 5 11.36 0 12.9 0 0.0 62 63.00 21
Santino Ferrucci 30 24 15 17 9 30 19.9 13 48 68 -20 4 8.33 0 25.8 0 0.0 62 62.70 20
Anthony Alfredo 26 25 20 18 8 27 17.4 8 53 48 5 10 18.87 0 33.9 0 0.0 62 66.20 22
Jeremy Clements 29 17 21 19 10 36 24.7 10 56 57 -1 4 7.14 1 4.8 0 0.0 62 62.90 18
Ty Dillon 27 16 19 20 6 27 17.6 7 50 31 19 10 20.00 0 22.6 0 0.0 62 63.70 0
Bayley Currey 34 27 22 21 7 36 24.6 13 64 34 30 4 6.25 0 8.1 0 0.0 62 52.50 20
Daniel Hemric 16 7 18 22 6 31 15.7 -6 45 53 -8 14 31.11 0 48.4 0 0.0 62 72.00 15
Sheldon Creed 15 6 25 23 3 32 14.8 -8 57 83 -26 12 21.05 0 59.7 0 0.0 62 70.70 17
Miguel Paludo 19 9 29 24 7 36 23.1 -5 48 67 -19 12 25.00 0 24.2 0 0.0 62 52.20 13
Andy Lally 22 14 28 25 12 33 21.6 -3 35 49 -14 2 5.71 0 17.7 0 0.0 62 53.80 12
Austin Dillon 20 31 24 26 11 35 26.0 -6 74 52 22 4 5.41 0 6.5 0 0.0 62 43.20 0
Ryan Sieg 31 28 27 27 16 36 29.4 4 38 61 -23 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 62 41.20 10
Patrick Gallagher 35 30 30 28 10 35 26.8 7 51 44 7 4 7.84 0 9.7 0 0.0 62 40.30 10
Preston Pardus 23 23 31 29 5 32 22.7 -6 57 44 13 5 8.77 0 11.3 0 0.0 62 47.20 14
Kyle Weatherman 28 29 32 30 9 33 26.2 -2 56 46 10 4 7.14 0 8.1 0 0.0 62 40.70 9
Scott Heckert 32 32 33 31 12 33 29.6 1 52 38 14 3 5.77 0 6.5 0 0.0 62 35.00 6
Kaz Grala 24 10 23 32 3 34 18.1 -8 60 50 10 23 38.33 0 37.1 0 0.0 61 61.50 0
Myatt Snider 25 12 26 33 2 34 21.6 -8 51 55 -4 4 7.84 0 21.0 0 0.0 61 47.30 13
Brandon Brown 38 33 34 34 15 38 31.6 4 41 19 22 2 4.88 0 0.0 0 0.0 58 30.80 3
Bubba Wallace 13 35 35 35 9 35 29.4 -22 23 37 -14 6 26.09 0 14.5 0 0.0 28 46.30 0
Ryan Ellis 33 36 36 36 28 36 34.8 -3 10 13 -3 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 17 26.80 1
Parker Kligerman 37 37 37 37 34 37 36.9 0 4 5 -1 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 11 25.80 0
Jeb Burton 21 38 38 38 21 21 38.0 -17 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 26.00 1